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When Trojans Go Phishing - 500,000 users already infected; Finjan Reveals How New Crimeware Steals Bank Customers Identities.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-31 July 2007-FINJAN: When Trojans Go Phishing - 500,000 users already infected; Finjan Reveals How New Crimeware Steals Bank Customers Identities(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

RDATE:31072007

Farnborough, United Kingdom - Finjan, a leader in secure web gateway products, today released a report detailing how new Crimeware (Crime Software) is being used to steal banking customer data from infected PCs. During July 2007, Finjan has identified 58 criminals using the MPack toolkit who have successfully infected over 500,000 unique users. The infection ratio stands at 16% from 3.1 million attempts - indicated by the web traffic volumes of the infecting sites. Finjan's analysis indicates that the crimeware being used within MPack steals bank account information, such as user name, password, credit card number, social security number etc., in a creative way. The crimeware is capable of stealing account information from several banks around the world without leaving any traces behind. Stolen data is being sent to the criminals over a secure communication channel (SSL) to avoid detection. Users whose machines were infected by this crimeware will not notice any change to their normal PC and online browsing experience. The rootkit nature of the crimeware leaves no sign and does not impact the end-user experience. To compound the problem the crimeware downloaded by the MPack toolkit is still not detected by the majority of popular security products, thus it is very effective in infecting PCs....

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